Ray was born in 2310 on Earth, in Bristol, England. He was orphaned early on,
very young (or he was abandoned, no one
is entirely sure which). At age 9, he stowed away on an old-fashioned sea
ship that was designed to look and function like something from the late
18th century. It was a tourist ship for folks who wanted to experience the
old sailing days, even more realistically than they could in a holosuite.
'Course, the folks running the ride knew he was there, they did have a few
pieces of modern equipment, well hidden from the paying passengers of
course. But they let him cross, pretended he was undetected. They kind of
thought of it as part of the experience, the crew did. A few of the passengers
even noticed him now and then. They assumed he was just part of the show,
and so didnt even mention it to the crew.
Ray knew all this too, and decided to play along. It was pretty fun for him.

Anyway, the ship docked in America, at Anapolis. And Ray got out
and ran loose on the streets for
awhile, really trying to get the whole "street kid" experience. Trouble
was, this was the early 24th century, and there were no other street kids.
Everyone in the world had some home, even if it was an orphanage or a
foster home. But Ray didn't want to live like that, he wanted to be free.
Course everyplace was pretty clean and neat. There were no garbage cans in
alleys, no trash or cardboard boxes anywhere. In fact, there was really no
place to hide from the authorities. Still, he managed to survive on his
own without being picked up, for a few months. But eventually, he was
brought in by Child Welfare.

They found him alone on the street, and took him in, against his protests.
For awhile he had been able to fool people into thinking that he was just
a normal kid out walking or playing in the streets, and there's no harm in
that, then, is there? But finally they caught on, realized he was all alone,
and they tried to get him to go to an orphanage. But the first night there,
he ran away, and they didn't see him again for a week.

But he was tired of living on the streets. all he really wanted was to live
alone, on his rules. But he needed credits. So he tried to get a job. He
went back to the shipyard, and asked if he could get a job pretending to
be a stowaway on the tourist rides, like he had sort of done in coming here
to America. They wanted to talk to his parents, and he finally sort of
mumbled about the Welfare people. So they called them, and it was agreed
after awhile that Ray could take the job and live on his own, with a few
conditions (aren't there always?) He had to have someone check up on him
every day for a trial period, and later, when they were satisfied that he
was capable, he could schedule his own checkins with them, as long as he
did so at least once a week.

Things went like this for a few years. When he was 15, he quit his job,
and went out to find a new one, this was getting old, and so was he.
He had learned more than stowing away on his ship, he had learned old-
fashioned seamanship, he learned every job there was aboard a ship like
that. He had also learned acting, that was after all part of his job.
But now he wanted to get a job on a real ship, doing real work. Of course,
real ships those days were many centuries ahead of the ship he was used to.

He had had a tutor at his old job, and he was very bright, Ray was. He
quickly learned anything he studied, and easily surpassed most regular kids
his age. He had already earned his high school equivalence degree, and now
he would have to go to college or trade school. He went in to learn all he
could about modern sea vessels. And it only took him a couple years to be
about as knowledgeable as anyone around ships. He quickly got a job, and
just as quickly realized that modern seafaring wasn't for him. He'd had
hints of this in school, but hadn't wanted to be a quitter, so he had stuck
with it. But soon he quit his job. when he was 18, he decided space was
the new frontier, just the thing for him. He got into Starfleet Academy,
and spent an entire semester there before dropping out. He realized they
were much too cleancut for his tastes.

Then he thot about getting a job on a merchant ship, and he spent a few
years on one, a shabby old ship called the Drake. It was barely spaceworthy;
most probably wouldn't even call it that. But Ray loved it. He visited lots
of places throughout the quadrant, making contacts everywhere he went.
Soon he was the first officer on the Drake. After a while, he realized he
was still moving up, but he couldn't be captain of this ship, so he left
to buy his own ship with his savings (and he had a fair amount of those by
now).
He had enough money to buy himself a ship, but not a very big one. It was
slightly smaller than the Drake, but in slightly better condition. It was about five times the size of a runabout.
He called it the Robert April.
He did alright with this ship, and had a fine crew (including his first officer, Danomar Falcon, who had been the engineer on the Drake).

when he turned 30, he met a woman, Cassandra O'Malley.
He fell in love for the first time in his life. Cassandra liked
adventure, but not as much as Ray did. She wanted to live in one place.
So they married two years later, and settled down on Earth, in San Francisco. Ray sold
the Robert April to his crew, and Danomar took over as
captain. Ray bought a little bar that not many people knew even existed,
in a dark corner of the city. it was already frequented by people from the
TDF, some of them people Ray had met before.

So he's been running the Dragons' Lair since then, for a number of decades
now. He hasn't been back in space since then, not more than a few times,
anyway. Cassandra helps run the place most of the time. They have one son, Micheal.

Shaun O'Malley was born in Dublin, Terra, but his family moved to planet
Phoenix when he was ten. He lived his whole life
there after that.
Paran Azure was born on Bajor, but her family moved to Phoenix when
she was young, and she lived the rest of her life there.
Shaun and Azure met, and married in 2310. On October 15, 2312, their only
daughter, Cassandra, was born. One of Cassie's best friends growing up
was a Cardassian orphan named Danomar Falcon, who'd been adopted by a
Terran couple who were among the Phoenix colonists.

Danomar later worked with a man named Ray Doocott, who he introduced
to Cass in 2340. Cass and Ray married in 2342, and settled down in San
Francisco, Terra. They had a son, Micheal, in 2346.

Cass has had a number of jobs. She dabbled in xenobiology, and knows a
good deal about similarities and differences in various humanoid anatomies
(espeicially terran, bajoran, and cardassian). She does some writing now
and then, both technical and fiction of various sorts. She's a bit of a
scientist and inventor. She's worked in counselling. She's a philosopher.
She's...well, i can't even think of everything...half-decent pilot, can
handle a weapon, done a little intelligence work, and works in the Dragons'
Lair, which her husband bought a couple months after they settled on Earth.
Really, almost anything you can think of, she's done.

Son of Ray and Cassandra, born Dec. 12, 2346.
Born in San Francisco, raised there, joined Starfleet academy at 17,
graduated class of '67, immediately assigned to a small ship of no
importance which he soon proved himself too good for, and was transferred
to another ship, a nice big starship...oh, let's call it the ...Castellan
would be good for a laugh, i'll go with that...
he was on the Castellan for just over 3 years I believe.

(In the Original Rounder Trilogy continuity), around the time of the Conglomerate conflict, he was expecting a
transfer, and a promotion to Lt. Commander. Instead he was promoted
straight to Commander, and became first officer of the Lone Star. He died in 2377 on Ocampa, during the war against the extra-galactic Empire (from the Star Wars galaxy).